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The marines intercepted a truck carrying Trevino Morales, US$2 million in cash, a bodyguard and an accountant and eight guns, government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said.
Sanchez said the Marines had been watching the area for signs of Trevino Morales, who is charged with murder, torture, kidnapping and other crimes in the US and Mexico.
Trevino Morales is described as one of the two most powerful cartel heads in Mexico, the leader of a corps of special forces defectors who created their own cartel in 2010 and expanded from drug dealing into extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking.
Al Jazeera’s Rachel Levin, reporting from Mexico City, said the arrest was a huge victory for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.
“In the past several years these leaders were usually killed when they (police) were attempting their capture and all the intelligence was lost,” she said.
Levin said that it remained to be seen what his capture meant for the cartel, and how it would change the drug war. — Al Jazeera.
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